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Singing John Dowland with the Denver Early Music Consort, September 2016

Click on the video above to listen to a live excerpt from a performance given in May 2014.

Kathleen Schmidt is a lyric mezzo-soprano specializing in Baroque opera and oratorio, Renaissance polyphony, medieval chant, and 19th-century art song. She serves as Artistic Director for the Denver Early Music Consort, and is an accomplished performer of sacred and choral music. She has directed choirs and led educational programs to increase the impact of early (pre-Classical) music as a vibrant, living genre.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

ENSEMBLE SOLOIST: Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, performing early Baroque motets and villancicos from Spain, Bolivia, Peru, and other Central and South American countries. December 2016: Denver, Colorado.

FEATURED PERFORMER:Past, Present, and Future: Women in Classical Music, a program of all-female composers. Performed self-transcribed chant selections by Hildegard of Bingen with hurdy-gurdy. January and February 2015: Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado, and at Dazzle Jazz Club in Denver, Colorado.

PREMIERED ROLE: Peabody Opera Etudes, one-act untitled opera in three scenes written by composer Stephen Edwards, scored for two mezzo-sopranos and piano, detailing the life and diagnosis of the infamous "Typhoid" Mary Mallon. Performed the role of Dr. George Soper, the discoverer of Mary Mallon's condition. April 2014: Baltimore, Maryland.

CHORISTER:Washington National Cathedral,Washington, D.C.: "The Spirit in Flight", a concert offered as part of a weeklong series of programs entitled Seeing Deeper; January 15, 2014. Performed Spem in Alium, a forty-part motet by Thomas Tallis, as Soprano II in Choir V. Conductor: Canon Michael McCarthy, Director of Music, Washington National Cathedral.

SCENE ARTIST:Peabody Opera Production of Opera Lollapalooza, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. November 2012: Baltimore, Maryland. Performed as Medoro in a scene from the opera Orlando by George Frederic Handel.